Rain almost every day, and when it isn’t raining it’s 90 degrees with 85% humidity. Bugs everywhere, making my daily walk very unpleasant. Tourists in our area, too. They come to spend weekends in the nearby tourist town, which we avoid like the plague.

Yeah, but that didn’t keep real fans from getting nervous. Remember, there’s a long history of getting hopes up and then being dashed. We call it reality hitting.
Now, of course, we have that matter of all the rising talent that got traded away in assembling this championship team.
It’s a most interesting place to be a sport fan, especially with New York just down the road.